Give Me One More Chance...

Felt like sharing a little poetry...

Give me one more chance at the living.

One more year to grow.

One more sunlit filled day strung together in a row.

From under this cold wet earth let me rise'.

Let me rise, let me rise...

I promise you my love, my breath, my patience.

With you I will stay as long as you do...

My hands will be your shelter.

My legs will be your bed.

Like your mother I will provide you nourishment.

Like your father I will give you light.

Just give me a chance on this day.

This day when the sun unlocks doors like skeleton keys.

Sink to your knees.

Pull back the lands of the fallen and free me from its grasp...

Give me one more chance at the living.

And I will show I am worth it for the giving.

Looking forward to the weekend hope you are keeping warm wherever you are...

Happy Midweek friends...

Monday Poem...

I stood there underneath the magnolia tree and there was no one to watch me glistening under the moonlit southern sky. I stood underneath that moon for awhile bathing in her silvery milky white light. As in draped in diamonds my cinnamon skin sparkles. I stand on my own spinning cycle while the earth moves underneath my feet slowly just as slowly as the water evaporates from my skin. This would have only been another Sunday if I had not chosen to write about it. There was not a single witness in sight. I could only hear the cicadas singing their summer anthem and every now and then the silhouette of a black cat. Today would have been lost in the dark waters of my mind. But my fingers do this waltz on the letter keys in hopes by morning light my eyes will see clearly.